Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán

2:00 am

Dr. John Evans:

Yes, but sometimes not going all the way to enforcement. Sometimes, it will be on guidelines. In the electoral context, we were talking about the mitigation measures recommended to guard against deleterious effects on civic discourse. There are a lot of them. There are also the Article 28 guidelines, which concern the protection of minors. It also contains recommendations on how to mitigate some of those risks, including age assurance techniques. The kind of mitigation measures can often depend on the kind of harm, whether that is illegal content or illegal products, because the marketplaces are caught by this as well. If it is democracy that is at issue, it is the conversations between individuals.

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